For our independent study in digital history, I compared the amount of California state statutes concerning prostitution from 1850-1875 to the amount of articles printed in the Daily Alta California that mentioned the term “prostitute.” I wanted to see if there was any correlation between the amount of laws passed concerning prostitution and the amount […]
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The data used behind this project is census data that Dr. Kane provided from IPUMS, the “Integrated Public Use Microdata Series,” for both Albany County, New York and Sacramento County, California from 1850-1900. The visuals I created demonstrate a change in demographics over time in these two capital counties in the United States. Another data […]
For the final project I’d really like to continue working with the Albany Census Data from 1850-1940. I’m used to working with U.S. census data for California during the nineteenth century, but have never looked at it as a digitized data set that I could manipulate into graphs and visualizations. Using the Albany census data […]